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The Human Side of Austerity : Health Spending and Outcomes During the Greek Crisis
Perotti, Roberto - 2018
between budget cuts and health outcomes. Health spending and inputs were very high in Greece before the crisis: in several …
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Greek Budget Realities : No Easy Options
House, Christopher L. - 2015
As of August 2015, Greece's loan repayments due to external creditors through 2057 summed to €319.5 billion, requiring … sufficient to increase Greece's primary balance by one percent of 2014 GDP – roughly a quarter of Greece's total debt obligations … overestimate the amount of actual revenue that Greece would raise due to the endogenous adjustment of capital and labor. Meeting …
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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
We estimate the effect of information and expertise on consumers' willingness to pay for national brands in physically homogeneous product categories. In a detailed case study of headache remedies we find that more informed or expert consumers are less likely to pay extra to buy national brands,...
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The Sensitivity of Consumption to Transitory Income : Estimates from Panel Data on Households
Hall, Robert E.; Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021
We investigate the stochastic relation between income and consumption (specifically, consumption of food) within a panel of about 2,000 households. Our major findings are: 1. Consumption responds much more strongly to permanent than to transitory movements of income. 2. The response to...
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The Permanent Income Hypothesis and Consumption Durability : Analysis Based on Japanese Panel Data
Hayashi, Fumio - 2021
The permanent income hypothesis is tested on a four-quarter panel of about two thousand Japanese households for ten commodity groups. Consumption is a distributed lag function of expenditures, and the utility function is additively separable in time. Durability is defined as the persistence of...
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Combining Panel Data Sets with Attrition and Refreshment Samples
Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido W.; Ridder, Geert; … - 2021
In many fields researchers wish to consider statistical models that allow for more complex relationships than can be inferred using only cross-sectional data. Panel or longitudinal data where the same units are observed repeatedly at different points in time can often provide the richer data...
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Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Hastings, Justine S. - 2010
We use responses to a survey and experiment with participants in Mexico's privatized social security system to examine how financial literacy impacts workers' choice behavior and how simplifying information on management fees may increase measures of price elasticity sensitivity among the...
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Did Mergers Help Japanese Mega-Banks Avoid Failure? Analysis of the Distance to Default of Banks
Harada, Kimie - 2010
In the late 1990s, several large Japanese banks failed for the first time in its postwar history. As the financial environment was deteriorating further, several remaining banks decided to merge among themselves, presumably, to make their operations more efficient to avoid failures. This paper...
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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization : The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005
Gronau, Reuben - 2010
20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …
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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence from Japanese Firm-Level Data
Fukao, Kyoji - 2010
acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … acquisitions improved target firms%u2019 productivity and profitability significantly more and quicker than acquisitions by … domestic firms.Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms%u2019 profitability in the case of both …
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